Enhancing Community/Academic Clinical Research Collaboration

描述（申请人提供）：加强社区/学术临床研究合作从一开始，密歇根州临床与健康研究所（MICHR）社区参与计划（CE）就以社区为基础的前瞻性研究（CBPR）的指导原则为基础，我们最初的临床转化科学奖由社区领导人和大学教职员工共同开发，从项目启动时就纳入临床研究倡导者（CRA）。我们认识到，这是至关重要的是，服务不足的群体的成员在临床和转化研究中得到充分的代表，如果我们要真正造福于整个社会的健康。因此，我们把资源集中在高危群体上：种族和少数民族、妇女、高危婴儿、儿童和青年以及残疾人-最初集中在底特律、弗林特和华盛顿州内传统上服务不足的社区，CRA在每个重点社区开展工作。该RFA提供了一个机会，以建立在我们的CE计划的现有优势，并进一步协调和扩大三个示范性的社区合作伙伴的专业知识，以描述和推进必要的最佳实践，使社区能够通过以下具体目标提高公众健康的目的：1）提高我们的社区合作伙伴的能力，以更有权力和独立的方式参与，促进和指导社区研究活动的选定方面; 2）加速发展富有成效的学术/社区合作，减少启动和完成基于社区的临床研究所需的时间; 3）利用CBPR原则开发和完善研究过程的各个阶段，以吸引合作伙伴并将合作伙伴关系与结果联系起来（并最终传播）。我们将使用密歇根大学开发的成功的“研究合作伙伴”模型，分三个阶段实现这些目标，该模型扩大了三个CRA的作用。在第一阶段，我们将共同开发促进共同学习的培训模块;在第二阶段，我们将培训和认证社区成员和研究人员;在第三阶段，我们将评估和综合最佳做法以供传播。 公共卫生相关性：从一开始，密歇根大学临床与健康研究所（MICHR）社区参与计划（CE）就以社区为基础的前瞻性研究（CBPR）的指导原则为基础，我们最初的临床转化科学奖由社区领导人和大学教职员工共同开发，并从项目启动时纳入临床研究倡导者（CRA）。我们认识到，这是至关重要的是，服务不足的群体的成员在临床和转化研究中得到充分的代表，如果我们要真正造福于整个社会的健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Enhancing Community/Academic Clinical Research Collaboration From its inception, the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) Community Engagement Program (CE) has based its efforts on the guiding principles of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), with our initial Clinical Translational Science Award jointly developed by community leaders and university faculty and staff, incorporating Clinical Research Advocates (CRAs) from the project start-up. We recognize that it is vitally important that members of underserved groups be adequately represented in clinical and translational research if we are truly to benefit the health of the whole community. Thus, we have focused our resources towards the at-risk groups of: racial and ethnic minorities, women, at-risk infants, children and youth, and persons with disabilities - initially focusing on traditionally underserved communities within Detroit, Flint, and Washtenaw County, with CRA effort in each focal community. This RFA provides the opportunity to build upon the existing strengths of our CE program, and to further coordinate and expand the expertise of three exemplary community partners in order to describe and advance the essential best practices that capacitate communities for the purposes of uplifting the public health through the following specific aims: 1) Enhance the capacity of our community partners to engage in, contribute to and direct selected aspects of community-based research activities in a more empowered and independent fashion; 2) Accelerate the development of productive academic/community collaborations reducing the time required to initiate and complete community-based clinical research and 3) utilize CBPR principles to develop and refine stages of the research process for engaging partners and linking partnerships to outcomes (and ultimately to dissemination). We will accomplish these aims in three phases using a successful 'Partners in Research' model developed at the University of Michigan that expands the role of the three CRA's. In Phase 1 we will jointly develop training modules that facilitate co-learning; in phase 2 we will train and certify community members and researchers; and in phase 3 we will evaluate and synthesize best practices for dissemination. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: From its inception, the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) Community Engagement Program (CE) has based its efforts on the guiding principles of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), with our initial Clinical Translational Science Award jointly developed by community leaders and university faculty and staff, incorporating Clinical Research Advocates (CRAs) from the project start-up. We recognize that it is vitally important that members of underserved groups be adequately represented in clinical and translational research if we are truly to benefit the health of the whole community.